Post Tagged with: "Consumer Behavior"

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  [Mood Riffs] Fascist Style

  2013, Mood Riffs

  Adolf Hitler is remembered for a number of reasons, but we don’t ever recall one of them being a beauty consultant.

   
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  [Mood Riffs] Bull- and Bear-Market Burgers

  2012, Mood Riffs

  Are you in the mood for an angry burger?

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Know This Book? Don’t Hide That Sly Grin…

  Social Mood Watch

  Why has the desire for love given way to the desire for sex?

   
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  [Article] A Game of Thrones: Almost Everybody’s a Bad Guy

  2011, Abridged Article, Alan Hall, Article, Cultural Trends, The Socionomist

  “Definitive morals and heroes accompany a bull market; blurred morals and mixed heroes accompany a bear market.”

   
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  [Article] Higher Tuition: Is it Finally “Enough”?

  2011, Article, Cultural Trends, Research, The Socionomist

  Includes the latest developments in the education bubble and student loan debt.

   
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  [Article] Glenn Beck’s Goodbye

  2011, Article, Cultural Trends, Euan Wilson, Research, The Socionomist

  Glenn Beck had a meteoric rise to the top of cable news. He doubled his audience in 2008, and by early 2009 had more viewers for his 5 p.m. show than all his competitors combined. His popularity extended beyond the tube — with six straight number-one bestsellers and a massive “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, D.C. Now — all of a sudden — Glenn Beck can’t buy a break. Glenn Beck’s sponsors started to pull out in mid-2009, his past two books failed to hit number one, his ratings endured the steepest drop of any cable news show during the period, and his “Restoring Honor” rally became the brunt of jokes and parodies. How did Glenn Beck go from accolades to insignificance in such a short period of time?